Emotional Labor, Physical Labor and Mental Labor of Hospice Care Nurses: A Mixed-method Study

NCT05608512 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: NMU22_1101
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Hospice care is a nurse-led multidisciplinary team care that provides physical, mental, and social care to end-of-life patients. According to the WHO, the role of hospice nurses is addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms, to support patients and their caregivers. Different from other disease care, hospice nurses face end-of-life patients and their families. As the primary nursing contact of a dying family, hospice nurses have a more intense and complex emotional experience. In China, with the improvement of human rights protection awareness, the nurse-patient relationship is particularly important, and the social requirements for nursing workers are also getting higher and higher. In addition, hospice nurses not only provide physical and psychological care to patients, but also provide comprehensive care to families of end-of-life patients. It is not just the mental work of learning expertise and dealing with emergency situations, and the physical labor of caring for large numbers of patients; but also requires emotional labor that has rarely been recognized before. When facing end-of-life patients and their families, it is particularly important to express appropriate emotions and pay emotional labor.

Conditions

Hospitalism

Keywords

hospice; advanced cancer; palliative care; nurse

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Chinese version scale of emotional labor

  The ELS for nurses was developed by Hong and Kim (Hong \& Kim, 2018), which is a 16-item scale using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very true), with a total score ranging from 16 to 80. Higher scores indicate higher levels of emotional labor.

  1 day

• Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale -21 (DASS-21)

  Chinese version of DASS-21 has a total of 21 items and measures three negative emotional experiences of depression, anxiety and stress (Jiang et al., 2021).

  1 day

Study Arms (1)

hospice care nurses

nurses who have worked in a palliative care or hospice unit

Other: interview

Interventions

interview OTHER

The first phase included a qualitative study. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological method to better explicate and understand palliative care nurses' emotional labor experiences, as well as the dilemmas and solutions they encounter when physical, mental, and emotional labor intertwine at work. In the early stage, we compiled an interview outline by a written qualitative meta-analysis about the emotional labor, and added the contents in the interview outline according to the actual situation in the later interview process.

hospice care nurses

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Nurses working as registered nurses for 6 months or more.

You may not qualify if:

• Nurses who were not directly involved in patient care (e.g., central sterile supply department nurses), and intern nurses were excluded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine: lead

Study Sites (1)

Wu Ye

Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Interviews as Topic

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 1, 2022
• First Posted: November 8, 2022
• Study Start: February 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: October 30, 2022
• Study Completion: November 30, 2022
• Last Updated: December 6, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CN (1)